The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-10-06
rallah assoc, Fla, October .. 1887.
The anti-prohibi,isnis.s carried Hillsborough


ioriiy.
--IDr. King wyliy, of Sanford, last Ssturd ay
morning, at 10 o'clock, poured out on street OF
that CITY three barrels of four year-old orange
wine.
Mr. ]. Bumby, who is now selling the lime
inside al Ocala, says it surpseses the Maine lime
which be his been handling for years. This Is
z, sd r.ews rs il can be sold much cheaper.-Or-
AMI Record
PRESIDENT Cleveland sets good example for
i.rEet ng officials by paying the entire cxpen-
ser II is Car including the fares OF each men,
TT Of his party, for his Western and Southern
youI 7ey.-Ao5ik Register.
: ne transportation lines report freight traffic
e1ccc iuE.y hesvv 10 all points in South Florida
Especially ou the nver boats is it noticeable,
they are daily ioadei 10 their greastest capacity
butts Lax Region.
We undo. st.Dd Hon. Wallace S Jones,
United States Consul at Messina, Italy, has
rendered lis resignation, in consequence OF vast
private interests demanding his personal atlen
uon-KonaceIo Consultation
The President, in a speech before the ST.
Louis business men yesterday, p i'd a handsome
compliment TO our frugal, thrift. foreign-born
citizens But be came down with both ieet up
on the miserable Anarchists.-N 7. Word.
-Sensior Mann will be in this city next Fri
day night 10 deliver an address upon plan by
which be proposes TO advertise Florida. His
plan stated by himself is quite novel and our
Citizens will doubtless turn out mask to hear
him set il forth in full-Orla Sentinel
The experts appointed by the County Com
missioners Of Volusa 10 inspect the proceedings
OF their predecessors for the past four years
have made report in effect stating that every
thing was correct Their statement cost the
county about $600-Tdrdres Herald
The enierpnsing counties of our State thst
have msde liberal appropriations for exhibits al
The Sub Tropical through their County Commits
siOners, will be those that will flourish and
boom. Mark the predicton.-FIorldd Agricul
fv-1t
Mr.. EntenZa, an extensive manufacturer,
and native Of Cuba, says he believes that the
culture of tobacco in Florida will eventually be-
come the mos, profitable busines. the farmer can
engage in He says that Florida tobacco is far
superior to that of any other State, and CON-
pares favorably with that raised on the island Of
Cuba
Hon. ]. G. Speer, of Oakland, and Colonel
John Bradford, of Tallahassee, State Engineer,
were in town yesterday Colonel Bradford was
inspecting The reclaimed, land on Lake Apopka,
and We understand that he was very favoraby
impressed with the results of the drainage ope-
raiions They made a trip through Ockawaha
cansl.-Tdudres Herald
General Edward Hopkins, Collector of the
por Of Jacksonville, died in that city on the morn
ing of the 18th ult-. OF chronic bladder trouble.
BE was in the nth year of his age. Our old
est inhabitants remember the duel fought on
this island in ante-bellum days, between Grn-
ersl Hopkins and General Charles Floyd, in
which both of these gentlemen we're severely
wOunded.-Ferndndind Mirror.
In Tennessee papers We note that Professor
z Warren Clark is lecturing with much success
in the principal cities of that State, including
Nashville, where he engaged the Opera House
four nights for his famous series of" Around the
World" lectures. Also he delivers missionary
lectures in churches on Sunday evenings which
are largely attended aud commended by the press
as being very interesting and instructive.
C. E. Wentworth, a native of the town of
Lee, who has been in Florida during the past
five years and is now the head OF the Lake Re
gion Real Estate Agency of Mnneola. Florida,
has come To Rome and opened an Office for his
company in the easterly store OF the opera house
His company are also in charge of the adveriIs-
ing in central New York for the permanent
Florida Sub-Tropcaf Exposition 10 open at
Jacksonville this winter.-Rome (lieu York; Sen
tnA
Capt John J. Seay, OF the Star line Of steam
ers, Rome, Georgia, arrived in town last sun
day. Capt Seay came TO investigate the question
OF The establishment of line of steamers on the
6uwannee. A committee Of the Board of Trade
met Capt Seay and rendered him the hospital
ties OF The city. The Str. Medea was chartered
from the Fsber Pencil Co., and the party left
early Tuesday morning to explore the Suwannee
as far as Brantsrd and possibly Luraville- &C.
ddr Key GuB Kiew
We were informed by a third ward man,
about ten days ago, that he heard some of Pen
dleton's gang talking Of q scheme to try to get
Harris removed from the custom house, as an
alleged sympathizer with Cuban filibusters We
paid no attention 10 it at the time; but the lying
kilograms TO the World from this place, of W hch
paper Pendleton is said 10 be the special CORE
spondsnt, together with the malicious and un-
truthful insinuations of the Equator, such as are
referred TO in the article of Mr. Delgado would
indicate that there was such a scheme.-Kev
West Democrat
Freight rates from the Nsrth to Florida are
low, while rates on Florida products sent North
are unreasonably high. This policy on the part
OF the transportation lines deprives the Florida
producer of legitimate profits, discourages indus
try in the State. thereby retarding development,
and encouraging the purchase of supplies from
other States which in justice should be produced
Of home. II sends thousands of dollars out of
the State annually which should be kept here
because those who have money find it easier and
cheaper to purchase their supplies in the North
than 10 purchase them at home-Orlando ReDort
M.
Maj. ST. Clair-Abrams returned last week
from the North. Our reporter interviewed him
and learned that enough funds had been secured
for the completion of the Tavares, Apopka and
Gulf railroad. The Major said that construc-
ton trains would be running into Oakland and
ClermOnt within thirty days. The work of track
laying will be pushed forward without delay.
and rails will be laid into Kissmmee by Decem
Der 1si. The work is now going ahead at the
rate of nearly mile day. We trust that this
wonderful man of energy may attain .ull sue
cess in his ans-OrIando Reporter